Former President Donald Trump joined the list of a number of presidential candidates who have suffered injury from assassination attempts.
Live updates:Donald Trump rushed from rally and 1 attendee dead, 2 seriously injured after apparent assassination attempt
While details from the incident are still being confirmed, the 78-year-old GOP frontrunner posted on his Truth Social account that he was struck in his right ear on Saturday while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. It has been confirmed that the U.S. Secret Service killed the assailant, a bystander was killed, and more were seriously injured.
Here's a look back at the history of assassination attempts on American presidents or candidates.
March 30, 1981: President Ronald Reagan
The most recent attempt on a presidential candidate was on Republican President Ronald Reagan when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. after a speaking engagement just two months after taking office. The then-70-year-old was seriously injured and underwent emergency surgery before being released after almost two weeks in the hospital. Reagan suffered a punctured lung, a broken rib and internal bleeding.
Vice President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts.
The first on Sept. 5, 1975, a member of the Manson Family cult attempted to fire a pistol at the president in Sacramento, Calif. She served 34 years in prison.
Less than three weeks later, another woman attempted to shoot Ford in San Francisco, missing the first shot and then firing again and injuring a bystander. She served 32 years in prison.
May 15, 1972: Gov. George Wallace
Democratic Alabama Gov. George Wallace was running for the party nomination for the second time when he was shot five times at a rally in Maryland and paralyzed from the waist down. Wallace would go on to lose the nomination and run for president four times.
June 5, 1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
While campaigning in California for the presidency, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY, was shot and killed by a Palestinian activist for his support of Israel during the Israeli-Arab conflict. Kennedy lived just one day after being hit twice, in the neck and the armpit. He was 42 years old.
President John F. Kennedy was riding in a motorcade parade with first lady Jackie Kennedy in downtown Dallas when he was shot in the neck and head by Lee Harvey Oswald. The 46-year-old had yet to announce his re-election campaign and was riding with then-Texas Democratic Gov. John Connally, who also was shot.
Kennedy was pronounced dead soon after the shooting and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States.
October 14, 1912: President Theodore Roosevelt
During his second run for election, former Democratic President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest at a campaign rally in Milwaukee. Roosevelt famously delivered the speech he had planned for the crowd outside the Gilpatrick Hotel before agreeing to see medical help.
Roosevelt first assumed the presidency when President William McKinley was assassinated.
September 6, 1901: President William McKinley
Republican President William McKinley was shot to death in Buffalo, New York, during his second term. He was at the Pan-American Exposition when an anarchist shot him in the stomach twice when McKinley reached out to shake his hand. McKinley died a week later at 58.
July 2, 1881: President James A. Garfield
While waiting for a train in Washington, D.C., Republican President James A. Garfield was shot in the back and shoulder by a supporter of Vice President Chester A. Arthur.
Garfield died of his wounds over two months later, and Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States.
April 14, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln was the first to hold the high office to be assassinated.
While watching a play with his wife at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., towards the end of the Civil War, Lincoln was shot from behind by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate and famous actor.
June 27,1884: Mayor Joseph Smith
Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Reform candidate Joseph Smith was targeted for his Mormon beliefs and was shot to death with his brother by a mob in jail. Smith was the mayor of Nauvoo, Ill., and ordered a newspaper that published critiques of him and his church be destroyed, which resulted in his arrest for inciting a riot in response. A mob approached Smith and his brother and were shot while awaiting their trial in the jail.
January 30, 1835: President Andrew Jackson
A house painter attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson but misfired two shots before being apprehended and found not guilty on the grounds of insanity.
Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley, Jr.) is the only U.S. president to have been injured in an assassination attempt while in office and survive. Two former presidents, Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Donald Trump (2024, by Thomas Matthew Crooks) have also been injured in attacks.
(CBS DETROIT) - Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, CBS News Detroit takes you on a history lesson to the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor. Gerald Ford, a Michigan native, had two assassination attempts on him in just 17 days. We'll start on Sept. 5, 1975.
Quickly, bystanders tackled the would-be assassin to the floor while the president was hustled away. Jackson was saved from the first known attempt to assassinate a U.S. president. Andrew Jackson was no stranger to violence—physical or verbal.
President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered in police custody two days later. That, combined with other circ*mstances, fueled conspiracy theories that have powerfully endured.
John Tyler was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives. In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter. They had eight children.
In fact, after he was shot dead by his pursuers, Booth was found to be carrying the photographs of five women—one of which being a photograph of Hale. Robert Todd Lincoln has the unfortunate legacy of being present or nearby when three presidential assassinations occurred.
On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., where he had been talking to 5,000 members of the AFL-CIO when several shots were fired. John Hinckley, Jr., fired his .22 caliber revolver with “devastator” bullets at the President and his security team.
The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College.
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.
Guiteau, age thirty-nine at the time, was known around Washington as an emotionally disturbed man. He had killed Garfield because of the President's refusal to appoint him to a European consulship. In planning this violent act, Guiteau stalked Garfield for weeks.
Czolgosz, a Polish immigrant, grew up in Detroit and had worked as a child laborer in a steel mill. As a young adult, he gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology. He claimed to have killed McKinley because he was the head of what Czolgosz thought was a corrupt government.
Although President Washington oversaw the construction of the house, he never lived in it. It was not until 1800, when the White House was nearly completed, that its first residents, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved in. Since that time, each President has made his own changes and additions.
Due to his brief tenure in office, historians tend to rank Garfield as a below-average president, though he has earned praise for anti-corruption and pro-civil rights stances.
In 1860, northern and western electoral votes (shown in red) put Lincoln into the White House. On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.
As Mike Putzel of the Associated Press shouted "Mr. President—", Hinckley assumed a crouch position and rapidly fired a Röhm RG-14 .22 LR blue steel revolver six times in 1.7 seconds, missing the president with all six shots.
Van Buren, who died in 1862, was born on Dec. 5 1782. He grew up speaking Dutch, which made him the first president who did not speak English as his first language.
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